Court Rules Removes Osun Traditional Ruler As A Monarch

A recent ruling of Court of Appeal in Akure, ruled out Alawo of Awo community in Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun State, Taiwo Abdulrasaq Adegboye as one of the monarch in Osun.

The monarch was removed by the court for alleged forgery - involving the forging of his selection documents.

His appointment according to the court was coated with unlawful and fraudulent processes. He was also alleged of flagrantly disobeying court orders and used the outdated 1957 instead of the subsisting registered 1979 Alawo of Awo Chieftaincy Declaration.

All these inadequacies and illegalities perpetrated by the monarch prompted aggrieved indigenes of the town to resort to legal redress in the court.

According to records from the Court of Appeal, in case number: CA/AK/58/2021, the court presided over by Honourable Justice Lokulo Sodipo, in the lead judgment read by Honourable Justice Abiru, set aside the appointment of Taiwo Adegboye as the Alawo.

Upon the court final rulling on the monarch's case, the judge declared that Adegboye, the ruler should not be given due recognition as monarch by any authority in and outside the state.

It also ruled that Taiwo Adegboye should stop parading himself as a monarch and restrained him from parading himself or wearing any insignia of the office as Alawo of Awo.

The Court while expressing disappointment in the Office of the Osun State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice for misleading the Osun State Government in approving the appointment and installation of Taiwo Adegboye as new Alawo, declared that the action of the State Government was in contempt of the Court.

Adegboye's active participation in politics precipitated the reason for his removal. The court said he has always played active role in the APC party activities

Adegboye, who is a politician and member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was before his installation as Alawo of Awo, the immediate past Leader of the Legislative Arm of Egbedore Local Government Area.

His appointment as the traditional ruler of Awo by the Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola on September 13, 2021, was allegedly due to his active membership of the State chapter of the APC.